Tatsuya Oishi

Oishi worked at Studio Junio at the beginning of his career and soon after joined Gainaxhttps://anilist.co/studio/6/. There he debuted as a key animator on Mobile Suit Victory Gundamhttps://anilist.co/anime/89/ in 1993. Hideyuki Moriokahttps://anilist.co/staff/101526/ and You Yoshinarihttps://anilist.co/staff/102998/ were among his coworkers at the studio. In 1994 Oishi got involved on Yu Yu Hakushohttps://anilist.co/anime/392/ as a key animator and during its production he met Akiyuki Shinbouhttps://anilist.co/staff/100089/ a prolific episode director on the series and a to be longtime colleague and friend of his. Oishi continued working as a freelance animator through the 90s. In 2001 he made his directorial debut with the 46th episode of Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldierhttps://anilist.co/anime/1678/. Soon after this he started getting involved in studio Shafthttps://anilist.co/studio/44/s works with aforementioned Shinbou. In 2009 Shinbou and him directed Bakemonogatarihttps://anilist.co/anime/5081/ together with Oishi serving as the chief director. In 2016 he directed the movie trilogy Kizumonogatarihttps://anilist.co/anime/9260/ which is considered to be his magnumopus. Oishi usually draws his works storyboards himself and is known for taking a long time finishing them. Kizumonogataris storyboards took him several years to complete. Naoyuki Tatsuwahttps://anilist.co/staff/103584/ who has also been involved in many of Shafts projects called him the Togashihttps://anilist.co/staff/96893/ of Shaft.